Want to use Google Buzz from your webOS phone, but don’t feel like installing the iPhone User Agent patch to trick the internet into believing that you’re using an iPhone? You’re in luck, as Google has decided to give you the option to use Buzz regardless of your mobile platform of choice. Pre and Pixi owners that visit buzz.google.com are now greeted with a page explaining what Google considers to be compatible platforms (Android 2.0+ and iPhone OS 3.0+), but also giving the option to continue on using your unsupported device. After several minutes of poking around, everything seems to work flawlessly on webOS, which is little surprise as it uses a WebKit browser just like iPhone OS and Android.

Well, Google is at least the company behind the product. It's like calling a Taurus a Ford Taurus. That's what it is - it helps us narrow down what you're talking about. If we say just Buzz, it could be a radio station in Houston, a cupcake joint in Virginia, or Yahoo's rival to Digg and Twitter. http://www.google.com/search?q=buzz

uhhh.. I remember reading an article here that gaveus a direct url to use buzz already. If you go to the GoogleTalk page it talks to you like your a Iphone, but hit launch and your running GTalk right in the browser (no notifications tho)..

Webkit is most certainly not Webkit. There is plenty of HTML5 functionality that other versions of Webkit support (i.e. Mobile Safari and Google's Android browser) that WebOS's browser does not, such as the Geolocation API, cache control, some CSS3 properties, etc. Additionally, companies can decide to simply not support certain functionality as they like. Mobile Safari, for example, does not support the tag for embedded video (afaik HTML5 videos only play fullscreen in the Quicktime viewer)...and you probably won't see any WebGL implemented in phones. (Maybe the iPad?)

WebOS 1.4 apparently brought a large amount of compatibility, but it's still seriously behind the other Webkit browsers. IMHO, this is something Palm needs to make a priority. There are vast numbers of developers that are moving to HTML5, giving them the ability to create fully functional offline mobile apps for any platform without messing with autocratic approval processes or porting across multiple languages.

wow! I was able to use Google buzz first by going to specific site and later just going to buzz.google.com. The thing that is missing from Palm Pre was not just the browser (its the same on iphone & Android). It's gps access to browser so sites can locate you. This is Palm who needs to give this access to it's browser so sites like Google Buzz can take advantage of it. Google buzz main feature is location based social networking. Without that there is no use to me. Hence you can use google buzz on Palm Pre but without it's full potential.

Awwww, I wish it was Wave and not Buzz. I have no need of Buzz, thanks to Facebook, and, while Wave is definitely alpha-testing work-in-progress-material, it is something that appeals to me more in it's more interactive content...